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Nearly 4,000 trucks were congested in a temporary parking lot set up at Manston airport in southern England after France closed its border with Britain on Sunday. The reason for the border closure was that a new, more contagious version of the coronavirus had started to spread to the British.
The BBC said France lifted the total ban on Wednesday, and that entry is now conditional on a negative coronavirus test that is no more than 72 hours old. The first trucks had already started to pull out of the parking lot, but several drivers clashed with police in Dover while waiting for their negative tests. A man was arrested.
The British even led the army to help manage the tests.
France still does not allow the average British citizen, only the French, the British living in France, and freight vehicles.
The Port of Dover is still closed, with a police line in front of it. They won’t even let anyone through until the trucks protesting the driveway are behind their vehicles.
Several described what they saw in the area as utter chaos, especially after it turned out that France was still opening the border. The truckers immediately lined up to queue, several of them nervous because they wanted to get home for Christmas.
Telex writes that Waberer’s two hundred drivers are also stranded outside, hoping to be able to get them home for Christmas by buses on the opposite side of the canal in Calais, France.
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